The first time I heard about the Okefenokee Swamp – a 438,000-acre, peat-filled wetland straddling the Georgia–Florida line – ...

A pair of bills that would keep mining from expanding at least temporarily near the Okefenokee Swamp got an audience before state lawmakers this week, but their fates are not certain as a key ...

Georgia House lawmakers are considering two bills that would ban mining near the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. Proponents of the ban argue that mining would damage the swamp's ecosystem and ...

Georgia environmental regulators could decide any day now whether to clear an Alabama-based company to mine next door to Georgia’s famed Okefenokee Swamp. Now, a pair of bills that would prevent ...